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The syndrome of subjective doubles is usually accompanied by another mental disorder or organic brain syndrome, and may appear during or after the onset of the other disorder. [2] Often, co-occurrence of subjective doubles with other types of delusional misidentification syndromes, especially Capgras syndrome, [9] also occurs. [10]
A doppelgänger [a] (/ ˈ d ɒ p əl ɡ ɛ ŋ ər,-ɡ æ ŋ-/ DOP-əl-gheng-ər, -gang-), sometimes spelled doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its own fleshly counterpart.
Delusional misidentification syndrome is an umbrella term, introduced by Christodoulou (in his book The Delusional Misidentification Syndromes, Karger, Basel, 1986) for a group of four delusional disorders that occur in the context of mental and neurological illness.
Capgras delusion or Capgras syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, other close family member, or pet has been replaced by an identical impostor. [a] It is named after Joseph Capgras (1873–1950), the French psychiatrist who first described the disorder.
A father of five said he can't leave his house without being plagued by selfie requests from people mistaking him as former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Supernumerary nipples–uropathies–Becker's nevus syndrome; Supernumerary phantom limb; Survivor syndrome; Susac's syndrome; Sweet's syndrome; Swyer–James syndrome; Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion; Syndrome of subjective doubles; Syndrome Without A Name; HHH syndrome; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome; Sézary ...
The disorder, first conceptualized in 19th century French psychiatry by Charles Lasègue and Jules Falret, is also known as Lasègue–Falret syndrome. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder ( DSM-4 – 297.3) and induced delusional disorder ( ICD-10 – F24), although the research ...
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